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Tag Archives: British Film
Recent Disks From England
Basil Dearden’s The Bells Go Down, which I wrote about last week, is just one of a number of disks I recently received from England. Maybe it’s a bit of nostalgia, but the past few years I’ve been digging back … Continue reading
Blu-ray Review: The Awakening (2011)
In the past few years, something interesting has been happening in the horror genre. After several decades of increasingly graphic movies focused on the torture and destruction of the human body, something more subtle has been re-emerging. Like it or … Continue reading
Additional Recent Viewing …
Beasts of the Southern Wild I watched Behn Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild just before it landed several Oscar nominations, and my reaction was quite mixed. The film has an impressive visceral power, anchored by the remarkable performance of … Continue reading
Michael Winner 1935-2013
Michael Winner, who died on Monday, didn’t get a lot of respect as a filmmaker. Best known for his Death Wish movies and other violent thrillers starring Charles Bronson, he seemed like a crass commercial opportunist. The Death Wish films, … Continue reading
Steamy Screen: The Melodramas of Gainsborough Pictures
One of the things I like about Criterion’s Eclipse series is the lack of snobbery in their choices. Yes, there are serious selections like the early Ozu films and Naruse’s silent works, Louis Malle’s documentaries, Jean-Pierre Gorin’s trilogy of essay … Continue reading
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Tagged Actors, British Film, Criterion, Directors, Eclipse, Melodrama, Review
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Flipside: The Black Panther (1977)
Released simultaneously with the Andy Milligan double-bill Nightbirds and The Body Beneath, the BFI Flipside edition of Ian Merrick’s The Black Panther (1977) resurrects an essentially lost British film which suffered a quick death because it took as subject something … Continue reading
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Tagged BFI, British Film, Crime, Directors, Exploitation, Flipside, Review
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Flipside: the Art of Andy Milligan
There’s far more stuff in the world than any of us can ever have complete first-hand knowledge of, so we often have to rely on second- and third-hand information about things we haven’t yet encountered. This leads to a tendency … Continue reading
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Tagged BFI, British Film, Directors, DVD, Exploitation, Flipside, Horror
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Recent Viewing part 2
I’ve been falling behind on my notes about what I’ve been watching, so I won’t be going into a lot of detail here, just making a few observations about some of the movies I saw in the past month. The … Continue reading
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Tagged British Film, Directors, DVD, Horror, Italian Film, Thrillers
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Recent Viewing part 1
The completist impulse is a key element of the collector’s mentality. For instance, I have forty-nine of Hitchcock’s features on DVD, plus his two Second World War propaganda shorts and season one of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. It’s not that I … Continue reading
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Tagged British Film, Directors, DVD, Franco Prosperi, Horror, Italian Film, Review, Roy Ward Baker
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Cursed by Warner Brothers:
The Strange Fate of Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vooM2wzwF0E”
After decades of neglect (at best) or even active suppression, the release of Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971) on DVD should be cause for celebration, particularly as it arrives in a 2-disk special edition from the prestigious British Film Institute. … Continue reading
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Tagged Actors, British Film, Censorship, Directors, Historical Film, Ken Russell, Oliver Reed, Violence
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